Description

GRAVELEY CHURCH LANE TL 2327 (North side)

12/6 2 Barns and linking lower building, 11.2.74 70M to SE of Graveley Hall Farmhouse (formerly listed as Two Barns to south of Graveley Hall Farmhouse)

GV II

2 barns and linking lower building. Eastern barn C16, W barn stylistically C17 but dated 1717, C19 linking building. Timber frame on tarred brick sill, dark weatherboarded with steep pitched roofs, now slated but W barn corrugated aluminium. A tall 3-bays barn on the left of the gateway to the yard in front of the house, a tall 5-bays barn a little to the NW, and a low open-fronted building linking the two. All face N. The C16 barn has central double doors, a high single door at rear of middle bay, low external lean-to at W end, jowled posts, mid-height rail, clasped-purlin roof with 2 purlins in each slope, the upper clasped by collars, the lower on inclined straight queen-posts with enlarged heads. Long straight tension braces in walls and edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts, in wallplates. Larger barn has inscription on post facing central threshing bay 'JOHN/CHAKLY/MAY.I/ 1717' and 'JC 1717' carved on the tie-beam. Small rear outshut to central bay. Jowled posts, mid-height rails, straight tension braces above the rail, long straight braces to tie-beams, clasped-purlin roof, upper purlin clasped by collars, lower clasped by inclined heavy straight queen-posts. Called the 'Pig Barn'. Face-halved bladed scarf joints.

Listing NGR: TL2345628064

External Links

• Wikidata Q26396599

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